English version

After all the frustration with posting the blog yesterday we did at least
have a good night's sail, though the wind weakened steadily and after a few
hours with poled out genoa, we resorted to motor-sailing, then to motoring the
last seven hours into harbour, arriving 51 hours after our depart. Another clear
night sky with shooting stars and enough stars to look at without seeing the
same one twice or thinking the same thought twice. With little wind and calm sea
conditions on board were good for sleeping on the off-watches, and snoozing with
the alarm clock when on duty. We were joined by another sail boat in the night,
French I believe, but Dream Catcher were keen to burn diesel and
motored over the horizon about two-ish. We were within three miles
of the Danish boat all the night.

The little island of Isla Grasiosa is only about 7x3km with four extinct (I
hope) volcanoes, the largest 266m high. Mostly untouched by the tourists there
are just a couple of thousand inhabitants divided between two villages. There
are no proper roads, cars do not seem to exist, the whole place being as I
imagine the entire Canaries were before the tourism industry really got going.
The harbour is quite OK, but lacks some of the facilities (like water and
electricity) of mainland harbours, though this is perhaps reflected in the
harbour fees which are very reasonable. Local time here is UTC (same as
GMT), summer time is over here whereas Norway and the UK change to UTC+1 and UTC
next weekend. You will notice from the position that we are now south of thirty
degrees latitude, considering that we started north of sixty degrees this means
that we have come south by a little more than one third of the distance between
the equator and the north pole!